Name: Moorella mulderi Balk et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mul’der.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. mulderi, after Eppe G. Mulder, a Dutch microbiologist and head of the Laboratory of Microbiology at the Wageningen Agricultural University between 1956 and 1981

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-608; DSM 14980; TMS

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16S rRNA gene: AF487538 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Balk M, Weijma J, Friedrich MW, Stams AJ. Methanol utilization by a novel thermophilic homoacetogenic bacterium, Moorella mulderi sp. nov., isolated from a bioreactor. Arch Microbiol 2003; 179:315-320.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 101. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1-2.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Moorella Collins et al. 1994

Assigned by: Balk M, Weijma J, Friedrich MW, Stams AJ. Methanol utilization by a novel thermophilic homoacetogenic bacterium, Moorella mulderi sp. nov., isolated from a bioreactor. Arch Microbiol 2003; 179:315-320.

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